Flea Market Contact Lenses

Flare, ASN, BSN · May 5, 2011

I am guessing they were the costume type of lenses worn for a novelty - though if they were RX, perhaps you could refer them to some low cost programs that could get her legitimate lenses at a price they can afford. If they were the novelty type - well i know my daughter would certainly not be allowed to put anything bought at a flea market in her eyes! Mom gets a DUH award!!

mycsm · May 5, 2011

They never fail to amuse me!!

BunnyBunnyBSNRN, ASN, BSN · May 5, 2011

I am guessing they were the costume type of lenses worn for a novelty - though if they were RX, perhaps you could refer them to some low cost programs that could get her legitimate lenses at a price they can afford. If they were the novelty type - well i know my daughter would certainly not be allowed to put anything bought at a flea market in her eyes! Mom gets a DUH award!!

For colour only. I spoke with the sister when she came to pick her up. Told her not only was it not good to put a non-fitted, non-prescribed piece of plastic over living tissue, I implied it was illegal to purchase them at the flea market (in this state, it is illegal to sell contacts at a flea market - I just said it was illegal, I let them infer what they wanted out of that).

BunnyBunnyBSNRN, ASN, BSN · May 5, 2011

They never fail to amuse me!!

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mustlovepoodles, RN · May 5, 2011

I had one last year show up with these bright blue contacts. She had just gotten to school and was crying, holding her eyes. She couldn't even open her eyes. It took me and our security officer to get them out! She was in a mess. So i called her mom and told her she needed to see a doctor right away because I suspected an eye infection.

Mom says, "My daughter doesn't wear contacts." Ruh-roh! :uhoh3: Well, Mom, she's a-wearing 'em today. So mom has to leave work and come to school. She wants to see me in the front office. I go up there and the daughter is standing their with her swollen red eyes, swearing up and down that she didn't have an contacts, that i was just LYING to get her into trouble, she didn't know *why* I would call her mom at work :uhoh3: I turned to teh girl and said, "You know you had contacts in. There they are in your pocket!" Sure enough, she's got them in a ziploc bag, stuffed into her pocket. When she pulled the baggie out I thought her mom was going to throttle her right there in front of everyone! Turns out, the girl had bought them from another student, never cleaned them, didn't really know how to care for them, just went into a girls' restroom and popped them in.

Needless to say, Mom was not amused :uhoh3:

T.H.R.N. · May 12, 2011

Holy cow.

I hope she doesn't get anything that rhymes with 'werpes' in her eyes.

Heaven help her.

Bless you for having to put up with their insolence

I bet her mom did have kittens.

I'm having kittens and I don't even know them.

Ick.

skoolrn, BSN, MSN, RN · May 19, 2011

I had a student who wore these freaky cateye contacts to school one day and came to me complaining that his eyes hurt. He wan't "eye drops". Told me he bought them at a "head shop". When I told them they were probably made in China and could have lead in them he took them out then threw them away. His eyes were bloodshot to say the least.